Are there more stars than grains of sand on the Earth's beaches?

It is incredible last year I had a few dark sky trips to fill in the evenings worth doing during any meteor shower.

What's more incredible is that we still have to swallow all the religious bolox and listen and respect people who are quite happily lying to themselves and everyone else around them,they just ignore stars and planets exist despite seeing them most days of their lives.

How did they get there?

Works both ways Denzil, don’t believe in either ,religion, psychology, as you say blows your mind ,as for the answer who knows who cares,would it make a difference?

My sorry McCoy says blow your mind

If life is going to exist in a universe this size, the one thing it cannot afford to have, is a sense of proportion.


- Trin Tragula - Inventor of the Total Perspective Vortex.

All of the spacey claims are impossible to get ones head around...

The grains of sand one would be thought of as ridiculous, until all the claims of millions/billions of years/light years,
and billions of other universes way out there!

The largest known star, if could be seen at all from planet Earth, would be just a pin prick and yet (in principle), it would take a passenger jet,
flying around it, 1,100 years at 500mph.....

That is circa 14 lifetimes!!!!!

"billions of other universes way out there!"

.....sorry...."galaxies"...

2 more

What is outside of the universe then? And what is outside of that and that and that etc........

The Monty Python Galaxy Song is surprisingly accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

I read somewhere that the original guess that there were more stars out there than all the grains of sand on Earth. This figure has now been revised to TEN stars to each grain of sand!
It's just a guess, I suppose, but we'll never know.

It is not just a guess. It's scientific estimates of how many grains of sand there are, and how many stars there are.

When I was at university we had a similar thing for how unlikely was quantum tunnelling but it was 4 decades ago and I've forgotten. The punchline was something like, ... winning the pools N times a second, every second, [pause for effect] since the universe began.

Blimey, it's 40 years since I was a bright young thing. If only they knew.

Isn't an estimate a rough guess?

That's apparently a 'guesstimate' ?

Is it a builders estimate?

Maybe a bs timate?

Similar guestimate to the
One on the initial cost of
Holyrood.

When they say on beaches, are we talking top layer or how far we digging down?

Apparently there are more Atoms in a grain of sand than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth.. (not sure how far were digging down though)

^ Having a bit of trouble getting my head around that...

Ramruma
It is not just a guess. It's scientific estimates of how many grains of sand there are, and how many stars there are.

It's quite a simple equation actually. Infinite v finite. The answer to a lot of such questions.

The cliffs on the Norfolk coast have  eroded quite a bit  recently making a lot more grains of sand,  I think these  scientists need to re-evaluate their estimates.

I notice that the Sahara desert wasn't included in these calculations.

What we can deduce from this is that all the grains of  sand on all the beaches (not sure how deep) on Earth +  the Sahara desert could be a higher number than all of the stars in the Universe.

There appear to be more stars than grains of sand if you consider the number of stars that we can see from here

assuming it is pretty much the same throughout the universe, and I assume it is

"Mind blowing"

If a man counted 2 grains of sand every second of his life, by the time he is 70yrs he will have counted 4,415,040,000 grains of sand and still have 95%  of Formby beach to count.

2 grains per second? Must be from Liverpool the lazy git.

The answer is 42.

Can't be from Glasgee as you guys don't live that long

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https://youtu.be/elnQ4ATJ2ik?t=330